Send and recieve fax

[easg]

How do I do to configure Win98se to recieve and send faxes?

[DougL]

Hi easg

Got this out of an old comms book for win98, hope it helps.


Microsoft Fax can't be installed by the add/remove programs. you have to use some of the installation files which reside on the windows 98 cd in the folder D:\tools|oldwin95\message\intl where D is your cd drive
To install MS fax insert your cd and use explorer to open the message\intl folder

Double click on wms.exe to install windows messaging(which includes the earlier e-mail program MS Exchange

return to explorer and double click on awfax.exe, this installs MS Fax

You should now see the Inbox icon on the Windows 98 desktop. When the setup is complete the inbox icon is used to start windows messaging.
After installation you should also have a Mail icon and a Microsoft Mail Postoffice icon on the control panel

before using MS Fax for the first time you need to set up a profile after clicking on the Inbox icon on the desktop.
A setup wizard will guide you through the process but you will need to enter a location i.e. folder on your hard drive , to receive faxes.
There is a text file wms-fax.txt located in the folder d:\tools\oldwin95\message\intl
this file contains additional information on setting up MS Fax.

Doug

[GaryRouth]

Doug's advice should work for nearly all Win98 installations.

In addition, most OEM builders include a Fax program of some sort with the bundle: check on the bundled disks.

If this is a home build, a software disk usually comes with a modem that is purchased separately, and if a modem is included onboard the motherboard - the motherboard's software disk usually includes a fax program [you usually see something like BitWare, WinFax, or SuperFax] These programs can handle all the details of sending and receiving for Win98 - usually without having to install Messaging or Exchange.
. . . Gary

[kbaasit]

Do U already have fax installed on your PC? and just want to set it up?

[easg]

The fax/modem is installed I want to set it up to send and recieve fax

[easg]

Do I need internet access to configure this, It is asking me for an IP address.

[bailey]

sending a normal fax to a phone connected fax at the other end is just a matter of dialing the fax number,

if your trying to send a fax over the internet, then you need to subscribe to a service that does that, and then you would have a ip address to do it that way.

[easg]

Ok I can recieve fax, but when I try to send a fax from MS Word, the destination fax machine outputs an error after giving tone, I select file, send to, fax and follow the instructions in MS Word. the fax seems to be sent, but with errors.

[GaryRouth]

I haven't used one of the Internet-based faxing services yet, but like bailey mentions, that sounds like how you are sending things - if you are being asked for an IP address.

For help with setting up the Internet faxing, another tech will have more experience than I do.

But I've been faxing documents via modem from Windows programs for years and years, just using the bundled software that comes with either modem or motherboard. It's as easy as this: pop in the disk, it sets up a fax/printer in your Printers folder. To fax a document, you just select File/Print . . . and select the fax/printer from the list of printers. This automatically brings up the fax/dialer program you installed earlier. You type in the number, it sends = you're done.

You do, however, have a phone call to pay for using this method - if it's long distance.

You might want to set up a modem-dialed fax as a backup, just for those cases when the Internet is unavailable [ISP's do have troubles from time to time], and you may have a document that won't wait.

Best of luck
. . . Gary